We are going to read what was recorded by Luke, who was a doctor and historian.

Is Luke Reliable?

If you question us looking into the Bible for facts about Jesus and the resurrection, I want to assure you that the Bible is the best recorded history of these events and Luke was quite an accomplished historian.

That is not just my assessment, but the assessment of one of the most widely recognized archeologists and historians of the modern era of Archeology.

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Sir William Mitchell Ramsay was an Oxford educated professor who doubted the reliability of the New Testament and was known “for his expertise in the historic geography and topography of Asia Minor.

When he first went to Asia Minor, many of the cities mentioned in Acts had no known location and almost nothing was known of their history or politics. The Acts of the Apostles was the only record and Ramsay, skeptical, fully expected his own research to prove the author of Acts hopelessly inaccurate since no man could possibly know the details of Asia Minor more than a hundred years after the event—this is, when some thought that Acts was then supposed to have been written. He therefore set out to put the writer of Acts on trial. He devoted his life to unearthing the ancient cities and documents of Asia Minor. After a lifetime of study, however, he concluded: